[Devel] daily snapshots

[Mark Freeman]

Sorry I missed the meeting today. I'm building a privacy fence this
weekend.  I just confirmed this is resolved and closed the task.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>
>> The underlying problem is, I think, that cron on the server is just
>> utterly confused and refuses to do anything.
>>
>> I'll see if I can diagnose and/or fix that right now.
>
> Apparently I accidentally erased the crontab on linode2. (This is why the
> crontab should be stored in server-related files that are in version
> control, like in a Puppet manifest.)
>
> I've just now reinstated it, and run the snapshotting task! linode2 does the
> snapshot generation to avoid putting more load on the main server.
>
> (Also for some reason, the main linode was using "Bruce's cron" not "Vixie
> cron" (bcron vs. cron). I don't remember why I made that switch, but I
> switched back to Vixie cron in the hopes that it will fix the
> profile_daily_tasks cron job which seems not to fire often enough.)
>
> Snapshots should be back. Mark, if you agree, then please close the bug you
> opened about this.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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